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Nellie at The New York Times just wrote about screen consultants who are helping parents teach their kids how to not look at a screen. Here are some, uh, choice quotes: “I try to really meet the parents where they are, and now often it is very simple: ‘Do you have a plain old piece… Continue reading Screen consultants: pay me $150/hr so I can tell you to buy a puppy

I’ve had some time to digest the big news in tech this week — Google’s monster acquisition of Nest for $3.2 billion — and no matter how many times I think about it, I come to the same conclusion: Missing out on Nest will become Apple’s biggest regret of the decade. I’ve been a big… Continue reading Apple Will Regret Not Acquiring Nest

Congratulations are in order! After some completely appropriate late afternoon drinking at the bar with the love of your life who has friendzone’d you to hell, you stumbled into a convenience store to buy a pity cigarette, but instead bought a lottery ticket that is now worth $650 million! Now that you’re wealthy beyond your… Continue reading Congratulations, You Just Won the Lottery! How Not to Be An Asshole With Your New Wealth

It’s no secret that I am a bear on BlackBerry. Maybe that’s why we let the fireworks fly while on CNBC today. On CNBC’s Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo, I fought with John Spallanzani of GFI Group on whether Fairfax would be able to raise the billions needed to take the company private and the… Continue reading My Thoughts on BlackBerry’s Dismal Future on CNBC [VIDEO]

Holy shit, this is my favorite thing of the month. Kid President’s got your back.

I made an appearance on Al Jazeera English today from Chicago (I’m home for the holidays). In this short clip, we discussed the top searches of 2012, including the iPad 3, Whitney Houston and even Big Brother Brazil, the 10th most searched item in the world this year. (who knew?!) Check it out, let me… Continue reading Talking Google Zeitgeist, iPads & Big Brother Brazil on Al Jazeera [Video]

The Higgs Boson particle could very well be the particle responsible for mass (via the Higgs mechanism), but very few people understand why scientists are so obsessed with the particle. In fact, I bet most people would scratch their heads and say, “Higgs… what?” if you asked them about it. The same is true of… Continue reading Particle Physics, the Higgs Boson & Dark Matter Explained (By Awesome Cartoons)